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Updating My Work On The Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest

Posted on May 31, 2023 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Updating My Work On The Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest

I have presented my final task as a SWAY for public presentation. I have also included  PDFs of the unit plan and performance tasks for this unit. All photos in the sway are my own images taken over the last 5-10 summers as I have travelled the BC Coast.

GDE 832, Inquiry, Planning for Inquiry, Salish Sea, Teaching Through Inquiry

Planning Cross Curricular Inquiry Units

Posted on July 29, 2021January 29, 2022 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Planning Cross Curricular Inquiry Units
Planning Cross Curricular Inquiry Units

I have created a presentation on how to create inquiry units. The presentation reflects my process and how I would present it in a workshop to other teachers. This presentation also sums up my learning over the past several weeks showing how I have deepened my understanding of using inquiry as a tool to get…

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Assessment, Grade 4, Inquiry, Lesson Plans, Planning for Inquiry, Teaching, Teaching Through Inquiry

Thinking Routines

Posted on July 29, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Thinking Routines
Thinking Routines

Over the last few weeks, I have been exposed to many new thinking routines that I am excited to try with my students in the fall. Looking at these routines I can see so many valuable opportunities for growth. My goal next year is to have my students be the primary thinkers in the classroom…

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Changing Thoughts on Questioning

Posted on July 29, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Changing Thoughts on Questioning
Changing Thoughts on Questioning

In my most recent course we have done a lot of work on questioning and asking good questions. My response below comes from the thinking routine I used to think .. Now I think from Project Zero. https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/I%20Used%20to%20Think%20-%20Now%20I%20Think_1.pdf Resources for questioning that changed my thinking Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Essential Questions Good Inquiry Questions Characteristics…

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EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit

Posted on July 28, 2021January 29, 2022 By Amanda Younger No Comments on EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit
EXPLORING THE SALISH SEA AND GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST A Cross Curricular Unit

I have attached my template and my the beginning of my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest unit. I typically only plan the first few detailed  lessons of an inquiry unit in advance as they are the ones I use to build curiosity and back ground knowledge before diving into the inquiry with my students…

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Who Was Single Point Rubric

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Who Was Single Point Rubric
Who Was Single Point Rubric

I have created a single point rubric using student friendly language for our Who HQ project. Who HQ is a grade wide project where each student picks a person featured in the Who Was book series and spends most of second term learning about them before we present our “living museum” where students dress up…

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Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment

Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment
Travelling the BC Coast GRASPS Assessment

This is something I would like to include in my BC Coast unit as something we would work on as part of our inquiry process getting to know the coast. I have included my teacher planning as well as what I would give to my students, typically with my class I would model the steps…

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Grade 4 Summative Assessment Ideas

Posted on July 28, 2021July 29, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Grade 4 Summative Assessment Ideas
Grade 4 Summative Assessment Ideas

Summative assessment is not limited to a unit test, essay or paragraph, it can take on many forms that allow each student to shine. These are some of the things I have done or would like to try with my grade 4s Commercial Diorama Comic book Stop motion animation Build a play list for a…

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Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Practice

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Practice

Prompt:  three typical questions in your curricular area: one factual, one conceptual and one debatable, around the theme of famous Canadians, answering the following:  What…?  How…? Should…? I would use this for our biographies unit where students pick a historical figure they admire and we work through the historical thinking concepts to discuss what that…

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Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Reflection

Posted on July 28, 2021 By Amanda Younger No Comments on Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Reflection

https://studylib.net/doc/6909689/inquiry-questions—ccbmyp15-16 In reading about the different types of questions I have to say I disagree with the statement “I use conceptual or debatable questions more frequently than factual questions in my courses.” I realize most of my questions lean towards factual and conceptual questions and I rarely ask debatable questions. I do have them towards…

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